By: Ann Garrison and Helen Epstein / Source: Pambazuka / The Dawn News / February 1, 2018 The attempt to make the public believe that the Allied Defense Forces, a small, beleaguered Ugandan Islamist militia, attacked a United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 7 December 2017, killing 15 […]
President of Congo Republic Denis Sassou Nguesso has called for a regional action to mitigate the escalating crisis in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo. By: Ismail Akwei / The Dawn News / October 20, 2017 He expressed concern on Thursday when he hosted the summit of Heads of State and […]
By: Joao Pedro Stedile / Source: Caros Amigos Magazine / September 17, 2017 On October 9, 50 years since the murder of Che Guevera will be reached. He was arrested, wounded on October 8, 1967, and shot to death the next day in the external wall of a little […]
Source: Resumen Latinoamericano / The Dawn News / September 17, 2017 The son of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba, participated this Sunday on the program “Sundays with Maduro”, in Caracas, where he convoked upon a strengthening in the relations between Latin America and the African peoples before the Imperial threats. “It […]
Story by Todd C. Frankel Photos by Michael Robinson Chavez September 30, 2016 / Source The sun was rising over one of the richest mineral deposits on Earth, in one of the poorest countries, as Sidiki Mayamba got ready for work. Mayamba is a cobalt miner. And the red-dirt savanna […]
By: Kristi Essick / Source: The Industry Standard Magazine / Issue Date: Jun 11 2001 / Found in: GlobalIssues.org /The Dawn News The offer turned up a few weeks ago on an Internet bulletin board called the Embassy Network. Among the postings about Dutch work visas and Italian pen pals lurked a […]
The Dawn News reports on the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo: the lack of democratic mechanisms, in addition to the increasing violence and repression, have created a complicated political and social situation, which is taking the country to the brink of explosion. The Democratic Republic of Congo is […]
By: María Torrellas, reporting from Zambia for The Dawn News and Resumen Latinoamericano / The Dawn News / April 13, 2016. During the Pan Africanism Today Congress in Zambia, María Torrellas interviewed Ernest Wamba Dia Wamba, senator of The Democratic Republic of Congo. He was the President of the Congolese Rally for […]
By: Pedro Antonio García / Source: http://socialismo-solucion.blogspot.com.ar / The Dawn News / January 2012 In the last free elections that took place in the old Belgian Congo in the period 1960 to 2006, Patrice Lumumba was elected by an overwhelming majority and became the first head of state of his […]
“We will show the world what black people can do when they work in freedom, and we shall make of Congo the pride of Africa” – Patrice Lumumba Source: Telesutv.net / The Dawn / January 18, 2015.- Fifty five years ago, agents of the Belgian secret services and the […]
